Malcolm X

Malcolm X or Malcolm Little was born in Omaha, Nebraska on the 19th of May in 1925. Malcolm was the son of a minister who was a rapid supporter of the universal improvement of the black person and Marcus Garvey.

While he lived in Omaha, the family vacationed often - to a point that the house of the family has been destroyed by a fire. In 1929 the family moved to Lansing, Michigan. While in Michigan, the father of the Malcolm was killed; his body was divided in two from a streetcar and his head was broken. In his autobiography, written with Alex Haley, Malcolm has alleged that his father was killed from the members of the Ku Klux Klan. His mother was engaged in a mental institution. Leaving the school after the eighth grade, Malcolm made his way to New York City, working for a small time as a waiter in Harlem.

Malcolm began to sell and use drugs, turned to burglary and, in 1946, was sentenced to a term of ten years of prison on charges of burglary. While in prison he was converted to the black section of the Muslims, as directed by Elijah Muhammad and quickly learned the Koran.

To continue his life in 1952, soon he became a frank protector of the Muslim doctrines, acceptor the base argument that the malevolence was one characteristic inherent of the Christian world "of the white man." Aware of Muhammad, Malcolm has tried using publicity, rendering provocative statements and making declarations and inflammatory appeals to the civic groups (mainly white men and the public university campus).

When, in 1963, he characterized the assassination of John F. Kennedy a case "of the chicken that came to the house to roost," he was suspended from the black Muslim movement and from Elijah Muhammad. Disillusioned with the instructions of Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm formed his own organizations, the organization of Afro-Americans and the Muslim Mosque. In 1964 he has made a pilgrimage the holy city of Islam, Mecca and adopted the name Shabazz de Malik de El-Hajj.

Moreover he adopted views that were not popular with other black nationalists, comprised of the idea that all the white men were not diabolic and that the black ones could make their gains working through established avenues. There were new consequences seen of the actions of Malcolm, as he has become the victim of the threats on his family.

In February of 1965, his center had been firebombed; with the women and children unharmed. A week afterwards, Malcolm's life had been threatened and he was told that he would be killed in the ballroom of the Audubon in Harlem. Three of the men subsequently arrested have been identified as being members of the Nation of Islam. Malcolm X has had a deeper influence on blacks than on the white man.

Many blacks have answered to questions of his sensibility that he was a man of people, with experience in the way of the people rather than the university, city, or administration of the university. The memory and the image of Malcolm X has changed as well as after his death much as his own philosophies changed during his life. First thought to be a fanatic violent man, time has helped us understand he was also a supporter of self-help, self-defense and formation; like a philosopher and pedagogue, he is a major figure in black history, with both religion and mythology integrated in order to establish one structure for his fight against human injustice in the world.

Malcolm's faith, from a point of view, was a prelude to his action; the ideas were feckless without politics. At least three books have published since his death, effectively introducing the world to his thoughts. In 1992, a monumental film from Spike Lee based on his autobiography renewed interest and understanding in the life and death of Malcolm X.